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8/7
" Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last." - Winston Churchill
8/8
" Talkativeness is afraid of the silence which reveals its emptiness" - Soren Kierkegaard
" Truths are more likely to have been discovered by one man than by a nation" - Decartes
" Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink to the size and shape of the estimation of others" - Michael Pollan
8/9
" The great thing about real life is that it will always surprise you " - Neil Strauss
" And with great power comes great fear of losing it." - Neil Strauss
" He was saying something about the unique responsibility we had to lead the world. " The sun will always rise in America as long as each new generation lights the fire of freedom," he concluded. It sounded good. But really, when you think about it, what the fuck does that mean?" - Neil Strauss
" And all we can ask for, all we can hope for, all we can beseech God for, is to win a few battles in a war we will ultimately lose." - Neil Strauss
8/10
" I must now go a long way ....
I must face a fight that I have not faced before.
And I must go on a road that I do not know. " Gilgamesh, Tablet III 2100 B.C.
8/11
" A moment of realization is worth a thousand prayers " - Quentin Torantino
8/12
" When I get up in the morning my real concern is to discover whether or not I'm in a state of grace. And if I make that investigation and if I discover that I am not in a state of grace, I try to go to bed. A state of grace is that kind of balance with which you ride the chaos that you find around you. It's not a matter of resolving the chaos - because there is something arrogant and warlike about putting the world in order - but having that kind of .. like an escape ski down over a hill, just going through the contours of the hill" - Leonard Cohen
8/16
" ... as if awaking from sleep with a heaviness caused by unremembered dreams." Michael Ondaatje
8/17
" I always thought of romance as the ideal smeared with possibility" - Leonard Cohen
" We didn't know it was the 60's then, we just thought it was ordinary time" - Leonard Cohen
" There are dreams of glory whispering through the wires of my spine." - Leonard Cohen
"Whats the best place an opponent should hide? In the very last place you will ever look. He is hiding behind your pain, Jake. You are protecting him with your pain. Embrace the pain and you will win this game" - Guy Richie
"If you change the rules on what controls you, you will change the rules on what you can control." - Guy Richie
8/18
" All great ideas are dangerous." - Oscar Wilde
" Hounds follow those who feed them" - Otto Von Bismarck
" Every saint has a past. Every sinner has a future." - Oscar Wilde
" Ultimately, it comes down to taste " - Steve Jobs
"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" Herbert Stein
8/19
" Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see" - Thoreau
"One thought driven home is better than three left on base." -James Liter
"Everyone has a plan until they get hit." - Joe Louis
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." - John Maynard Keynes
8/22
"The rabbit runs faster than the fox , because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner." - Richard Dawkins8/24
"The more a man judges, the less he loves." - Honoré de Balzac
"Thinking is seeing." Honoré de Balzac
"My further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one." - Honoré de Balzac
"When women love, they forgive everything, even our crimes; when they do not love, they cannot forgive anything, not even our virtues." - Honoré de Balzac
"The most virtuous women have in them something that is never chaste." - Honoré de Balzac
"Power does not consist in striking with force or with frequency, but in striking true." - Honoré de Balzac
"It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day, than to say bright things from time to time." - Honoré de Balzac
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." - Honoré de Balzac
"Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness." - Honoré de Balzac
8/26
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
"The best truths can not be spoken and the second best will be misunderstood." Heinrich Zimmer
" When the President does it, that means its not illegal." Richard Nixon
“To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment.
8/27
Ah, you loved me as a loser, but now you're worried that I just might win - Leonard Cohen
8/28
8/31
"Violence isn't what separates men. It's how far you're willing to go." - Forrest (Lawless)
" Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence." - Gandhi
" The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire." - Mark Twain
" In times of peace, the warlike man attacks himself." - Nietzsche
" Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting ; but never hit softly." - Theodore Roosevelt
